Opium Culture

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Opium Culture

Author	: Peter Lee
File Size	: 53,8 Mb
Publisher	: Inner Traditions / Bear & Co
Language	: English
Release Date	: 21 June 2024
ISBN	: 1594770751
Pages	: 260 pages

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Opium Culture by Peter Lee Book PDF Summary

In "Opium Culture," Peter Lee presents a fascinating narrative that covers every aspect of the art and craft of opium use. The text is studded with gems of long forgotten opium arcana, dispelling many of the persistent myths about opium and its users, and includes information on the suppression of opium by the modern pharmaceutical industry.

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Narcotic Culture by Frank Dikötter,Lars Laamann,Zhou Xun

To this day, the perception persists that China was a civilization defeated by imperialist Britain's most desirable trade commodity, opium—a drug that turned the Chinese into cadaverous addicts in the iron grip of dependence. Britain, in an effort to reverse the damage caused by opium addiction, launched its own

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Intoxicating Manchuria by Norman Smith

In China, both opium and alcohol were used for centuries in the pursuit of health and leisure while simultaneously linked to personal and social decline. The impact of these substances is undeniable, and the role they have played in Chinese social, cultural, and economic history is extremely complex. In Intoxicating

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Narcotic Culture by Frank Dikötter,Lars Peter Laamann,Xun Zhou

China was turned into a nation of opium addicts by the pernicious forces of imperialist trade. This study systematically questions this assertion on the basis of abundant archives from China, Europe and the US, showing that opium had few harmful effects on either health or longevity.

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Pleasures and Pains by Milligan

Use front of jacket for front paperback cover Back paperback cover camera-ready copy on sheet 1 Paperback title page and copyright page included to substitute for cloth edition pages. Please call Mark Saunders at 434-924-6064 if questions arise

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The Social Life of Opium in China by Yangwen Zheng

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Milk of Paradise by Lucy Inglis

'Lucy Inglis has done a wonderful job bringing together a wide range of sources to tell the history of the most exciting and dangerous plants in the world. Telling the story of opium tells us much about our faults and foibles as humans – our willingness to experiment; our ability to

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Report on the Experimental Culture of the Opium Poppy for the Season by Bengal (India). Opium Department

Download or read online Report on the Experimental Culture of the Opium Poppy for the Season written by Bengal (India). Opium Department, published by Unknown which was released on 1877. Get Report on the Experimental Culture of the Opium Poppy for the Season Books now! Available in PDF, ePub and Kindle.

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